Zones of Regulation for Primary School Students

Primary School Ages 5-11

Adopted across thousands of mainstream classrooms worldwide—teaching students how to organize their feelings using metacognitive strategies.

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Award-Winning Tools & Resources for Primary School Ages 5-11

Find out first-hand why this best-selling social emotional learning curriculum has been adopted across thousands of mainstream classrooms worldwide. Students learn how to learn how to organize their feelings into four different Zones and use metacognitive strategies to regulate within specific Zones to meet their personal, organizational, and social goals. We offer award-winning storybooks, poster, and strategy card deck to target the developmental learning needs of children ages 5-11 when using the easy-to-teach The Zones of Regulation curriculum. When all these resources are used together, along with additional posters, they provide important, practical social emotional learning tools to practice regulation of one’s feelings within four specific Zones across situations at home, school, and in the community.

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Cost-saving & convenient bundles for primary school-age children ages 5-11

Help primary school-age children learn and develop regulation skills, especially as they work together in groups. In these bundles, you’ll find a rich variety of ways to encourage children to use regulation strategies in school, at home, and in the community.

Games make learning fun—and these games help children learn to apply their learning about the feelings within the four Zones within specific situations, choose tools for regulation, and practice supporting each other as they play.

These games help children learn to apply their learning about their feelings within the four Zones

The Zones of Regulation Posters Sold Separately

For use in your classroom, clinic, or home

Use these colorful visual supports for in-the-moment social learning and review of specific aspects taught within the original The Zones of Regulation curriculum book and or the Digital Curriculum lessons at home, school, and in therapeutic settings.

Digital Products for The Zones of Regulation

Gain screen access to our award-winning The Zones of Regulation storybooks and card deck

Our The Zones of Regulation digital products make it easy to explore, learn, and practice regulation and emotional control strategies. Use these digital resources to help your students, children, and clients develop metacognitive regulation strategies to meet their personal, organizational, and social goals.

The Road to Regulation & Regulation Station Storybooks

Two sequential storybooks engage children ages 5-11 in learning The Zones of Regulation framework and curriculum. The first, The Road to Regulation, describes and explains four different emotional zones and how we feel in each of them. Through an imaginary adventure to “The Regulation Station,” the second storybook introduces the use of “tools” (strategies) to help students identify ways they can manage their different feelings at school and home.

Available on Apple Books and Google Play

Also includes audio files.

Tools to Try for Kids: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect

A choice rich, portable strategy card deck to help kids ages 5-10 metacognitively explore and practice 51 self-regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings. The 4" x 6" two-sided strategy cards are divided into 5 categories that describe strategies to focus, calm, think, move, breathe, and connect developed from lessons in the popular The Zones of Regulation book.

Available on Apple Books and Google Play

The Zones of Regulation & Exploring Emotion Apps

Developed by author Leah Kuypers and software company Selosoft, Inc., these apps supplement the lessons in the curriculum book with interactive games filled with adventure and rewards. Students build their own strategy toolbox, identify triggers, and can even graph the Zones they experience across the day, providing data collection on self-regulation. Apps available on Mac App Store, the Apple App Store, and Amazon.

The Zones of Regulation App

An Award-Winner

Mom’s Choice Awards named The Zones of Regulation App among the best in Family-Friendly Products. An interactive tool to provide a fun andengaging experience while learning and gaining valuable knowledge to assist in developing real-life self-regulation skills. Students will be taken on an adventure through a town filled with exciting learning opportunities around Zones concepts, rewards, and mini games.

Available on the Apple App Store and Amazon.

The Zones of Regulation: Exploring Emotions Application

Learn About Emotions

The Zones of Regulation: Exploring Emotions is an application designed to foster self-regulation skills in fun and exciting ways while simulating everyday situations to which students can relate. The app helps students gain skills in consciously regulating their behaviors to the social and environmental demands.

Available on Apple App Store, Mac App Store and Amazon.

Testimonials from Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians

Mark, Parent of 8-year-old twin boys with Asperger’s Syndrome
This curriculum goes beyond teaching a single child about their sensory and emotional state. It gives parents, therapists, and teachers explicit tools to help all children regulate and navigate social and sensory challenges thrown their way. By using The Zones teachings in our home, our children are becoming more flexible thinkers.
Elizabeth C., Special Ed. Teacher
More students need to know their zones and how to manage their emotions— this curriculum is a great way to start!
Amy, Educational Consultant, Author
The Zones of Regulation® provides a clear road map of thoughtfully designed lessons to help educators empower students to develop self-regulatory abilities—abilities that research demonstrates will ensure success in life well beyond the classroom. Educators will find The Zones of Regulation to be a user-friendly and practical manual full of clear teaching strategies as well as concrete examples of appropriate self-regulatory strategies for their students.
Terri R., Social Cognitive Specialist/Consultant
The Zones of Regulation is built from a simple concept: Many children who are labeled as “bad” are really just kids who haven’t learned how to control their emotions in socially appropriate ways. The curriculum uses easy-to-understand terminology and cutting-edge tactics to teach the often-overlooked skill of self-regulation. It’s an important book not only for professionals who work with complex students but also for people who deal with children in any setting.
Chris, Autism Consultant
The Zones of Regulation will cross disciplines and professional organizations to serve as a leading intervention tool that blends methodologies of Social Thinking®, sensory processing, and emotional intelligence. The Zones acknowledges the importance of generalization of concepts and builds a bridge between professionals, educators, and parents in the form of developmentally appropriate visuals and strategies that can be used across settings. Every child sitting in today’s classroom would benefit from The Zones.
Camille P., Speech Language Therapist
Leah's tools are great for my students, and myself, and I definitely have learned something I can incorporate to each Zone! I love the blending of the Zones of Regulation framework with Social Thinking to help my kiddos.

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The Zones of Regulation

Leah Kuypers and her team exclusively provide training and consultation on all aspects of using The Zones of Regulation curriculum and their related treatment tools. To learn more please visit The Zones of Regulation website.

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